Latest / The Front / ‘Outback Wrangler’ Matt Wright back in court – and representing himself

Transcript

‘Outback Wrangler’ Matt Wright back in court – and representing himself · The Front

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. The so called Outback Wrangler Matt Wright
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: was back in court on Thursday, and this time he
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: was representing himself. Wright was the star of the Northern
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Territory based adventure series Outback Wrangler, which ran for four seasons.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: His friend and co star, Chris Wilson, was killed in
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: a helicopter crash while collecting crocodile eggs in twenty twenty two.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: The Northern Territory Supreme Court found Wright wasn't ultimately responsible
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: for the crash, but found he misled police during their investigation.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: He recently served a five month jail sentence for attempting
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: to pervert the course of justice. He appeared in the
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: Federal Court on Thursday as part of a separate civil
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: lawsuit brought by Chris Wilson's widow, Danielle. She's suing Right,
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: as well as the insurer HDI Global Specialty and the
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Civil Aviation Safety Authority over her late husband's death death,
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: arguing the helicopter slinging that killed Wilson was unsafe and
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: should have been banned by the Regulator. The barrister who
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: previously represented Right in the civil matter didn't appear in
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: court on Thursday. Wright has always strongly denied any wrongdoing.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Federal Court Justice Elizabeth Raper urged the parties on Thursday
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: to set a trial date after proceedings were significantly delayed.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: The matter will return for mediation in September. An earworm
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: penned by a seven year old Sydney boy is officially
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: a viral sensation. Eastern Rosella's by Myles Phillips and his
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: dad Joel has been played millions of times across Instagram
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: and TikTok, as well as high rotation on Triple j's
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: unearthed channel to the SPACIESUSA. Australian musicians Ben Lee, Meg
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Washington and Sam Cromac of Ballpark Music have all dropped
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: covers of the catchy tune, which has arrived. It's a
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: fierce debate around artificial intelligence and Australian creativity. It took
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: questions from The Australian's Technology editor Jared Lynch for Origin
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: to act on an alleged hack potentially affecting two million
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: customer records. Origin issued a statement to the Australian Securities
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: Exchange on Wednesday, saying it was investigating the possible breach
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: after the self described hacker shared a sample of fifty
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: customer records with Lynch. You can read all about how
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: the alleged hack played out right now at the Australian
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: dot com dot au and come back to the front
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at another
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: technological catastrophe, the Telstra outage that left thousand stranded and
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: destroyed faith in Australia's biggest telco. That's right here, Friday morning,
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: m